creditshelf AG announced the appointment of Dr. Gregor Heinrich as Chief Technology Officer (CTO), effective from 15 January 2019. In his new role, Dr. Heinrich will be responsible for IT and data analytics. He will report directly to creditshelf CEO Dr. Tim Thabe, but will not himself be a member of the Management Board. Dr. Gregor Heinrich has more than 10 years' experience as a CTO, most recently at Stonebranch, a mid-size provider of products and services for the automation of IT processes, focusing on the financial services industry. His responsibilities at Stonebranch encompassed product development and software architecture, with the long-term vision of self-learning and self-healing IT automation solutions. His previous career path included work for Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, and his doctoral thesis was on machine learning.